Johnny Evers Quotes

In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine.

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

Janeane Garofalo ended up, in a sense, being pushed by the media into becoming a pundit.

What is important for me is that the people who know me for real know Mario how he really is. People who don't know me, they read newspapers and they watch TV. TV is made to give a lot of opinions... so I can't show the real Mario to everybody.

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

I am being portrayed as some kind of a medieval monster ... a megalomaniac. If the people were to really believe all that the press has written about me then I must be the most evil person in the country today.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

I would never want the fans to think bad of me, to think I just want as much money for myself.

I think of myself as a great player, but the fans have to decide whether that's true.

I want to show people how I really am. Most people are only familiar with some of the headlines.

The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.

Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.

The public me, the one named Elizabeth Taylor, has become a lot of hokum and fabrication - a bunch of drivel - and I find her slightly revolting.

The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.

For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what people write about you, so - good or bad - I have never lost sleep about it.

The only thing I can't control is the spin in the press. And so if I know I can't control that, I have to let it go.

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton.

People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.

The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.

I'm a good guy at the end of the day, you know what I'm saying? A lot of people will believe what they see in the media from a long time ago. I'm just growing as an artist and as a person.

It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news. And people who rely on the media, like Mr. Trump, think that everything is a disaster. The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish. It's a point of fact that we're doing extremely well.